USB FlashDrives The New PC?

olddotter writes "Yahoo has an article about how large capacity USB drives might be redefining the concept of the personal computer. The article is windows specific, but think knopix on a flash drive." From the article: "When you check into an average hotel room and find -- alongside the alarm clock, hair dryer and DVD player that once were bring-your-own items but now are as standard as the furniture -- a cheap PC for guests to plug into, as our truly personal computing environment travels with us."

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Re:vmware with no HD image perhaps?

[Pharmboy]

Lemme guess, you're a Windows user, right?

Network Keys

[Doc Ruby]

Unless that PC is networked, it's useless. Networked, it can get any of our personal data on demand over broadband. What it lacks is security: privacy and authentication. A thumbdrive can contain one-time-pad data which both authenticates me and encrypts my transactions. And new ones can be postal mailed to me overnight for a few bucks, backed by the security of Federal postal fraud laws and police. That's the real promise of those little jobbies.